Bomb-dropper.



G. LOTYSIEWICZ.

BOMB DROPPER.

APPLICATION FILED MAR. 30. ms.

1,278,955, Patentd Sept. 17,1918.

INVEN TOR ATTORNEY tional view GEORGE LOTYSIEWICZ, 0F BROOKING, SASKATCHEWAN, CANADA.

BOMB-DROPPER.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Sept. 17, 19.18.

' Application filed March 30, 1918. Serial No. 225.643.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, GEORGE LOTYSIEWIGZ, a citizen of Poland, and a resident of Brooking. in the Province of Saskatchewan, Doniinion of Canada, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Bomb-Droppers, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to improvements in apparatus for droppin bombs or other like explosives, and has as its special object the provision of means, engageable with a bal loon or airship of any kind whatever, whereby one or more bombs may be freed from their carrier and allowed to drop by gravity upon the ground below.

A further object is to provide a discharging or disengaging means insuch manner as to be convenient of access to the operator within the car attached to the air craft which may be employed.

These and other like objects are attained by the novel construction and combination of parts hereinafter described and shown in the accompanying drawing, forming a material part of this disclosure, and in which 2- Figure 1 is a side elevational view, partially in section showing an apparatus made in accordance with the invention.

Fig. 2 is any enlarged horizontal sectional view, taken on line 2-2 of Fig. 1,

Fig. 3 is a further enlarged transverse sectaken on line 33 of Fig. 2, and

Fi 4 is a fragmentary horizontal sectionad view, taken on line H of Fig. 3.

In the drawings, the numeral 10, designates the balloon. or air craft, here shown to be of onventional type, from which is suspended. the car 11, by means of supports or guy rods 12, as is usual. Attached at the center below the car by means of a bar 14, 1s a rigid circular plate 15, containing a plurality of openings 16. formed in a row concentric with the plate or disk 15, the same being recessed as at 17 in its lower side, the openings 16 being adapted to receive the conical bodies of the bombs 20. which are provided with time fuses 21, or like devices upon their upper ends, while the lower ends contain a high explosive adapted to be detonated by concussion with thesurface upon which the bomb alights.

Formed radially in the plate, 15, adjacent to the openings 16 are other openings 24. having downwardly extending recesses 25, and into which are rotatably mounted cams 28, the same being secured to stems 29. bv pins 30. the lower ends of the stems 31 being reduced in diameter and extended through the bottom of the plate 15.

Fixed upon the stem 31 are rectangular blocks 32, normally resting in appropriately formed openings at the bottom of the recesses and coiled about the lower ends of the stems 29,- are springs 33, one end of which is engaged in the bottoms of the recesses 25, the ther end being secured to the lower portion of the cams 28, so as to cause a rotary movement of the stems when the blocks are raised which causes the cams to engage with the periphery of the bombs 20, thereby holding them in suspension under normal circumstances.

Arranged at the tops of the stems 29,are

handles by means f which the stem may be partially rotated, overcoming the torsional effect of the springs when it is desired to liberate the bomb.

In operation, the bombs having been assembled in the disk or plate 15, which is attached by the rod or bar 14: to the car so that handles '35 project upward to be con- 'enieutly operated by'a person in the car, the device is'in condition to ascend and travel over the territory where it is desired to drop the bomb, which obviously is accomplished by operating the handle 35, thereby liberating the bomb, the fuses 21 having been set at the proper time interval. or reliance may be placed upon the detonating elements 22 at their ends.

Having thus described my invention what I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent. is.

In a bomb carrier, the ombination with an aerial apparatus. and a car suspended therefrom. of a circular plate suspended from said car. said plate having a plural- 2 I V v 7 1,275,955

ity of recessed openings, bombs engageable Within said openings, said bombs being adapted to pass theret-hrough, cams mounted contiguous to said openings, the face of said cams being contactable with contact therebetween, stems engaged with the periphery of said bombs, means for normally causing said ams extending upward into said car, and means for rot-atlng said stems whereby said bombs may be released. 10

In testimony whereof, I have afiixed my signature.

GEORGE LOTYS IEVVICZ. 

